we seen we just we just looked at psalm five it'd be good to prepare our hearts for worship by reading Psalm five later we'll be looking into Psalm chapter six as I said this morning so Psalm chapter five to guide our worship this evening to the chief musician with flutes a psalm of David give ear to my words O Lord consider my meditation give heed to the voice of my cry my king and my god for to you I will pray my voice you shall hear in the morning O Lord in the morning I will direct it to you and I will look up for you or not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness nor shall evil dwell with you the boastful shall not stand in your sight you hate all workers of iniquity you shall destroy those who speak falsehood the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful men but as for me I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy in fear of you I will worship toward your holy temple lead me O Lord in your righteousness because of my enemies make your ways straight before my face for there is no faithfulness in their mouth their inward part is destruction their throat is an open tomb they flatter with their tongue pronounce them guilty Oh God let them fall by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against you but let all those rejoice who put their trust in you let them ever shout for joy because you defend them let those also who love your name be joyful in you for you O Lord will bless the righteous with favor you will surround him as with a shield amen well please turn with me in your hymn books to him number two it 10 210 to begin worship and I'll ask you to stand please [Music] [Music] [Music] amen please be seated well let's go to God in prayer and ask his blessing to be upon our worship here this evening that's prayer our gracious that our loving Heavenly Father is once again with pleasure that we come into your holy presence this night to worship you father we thank you that you are worthy of all worship Father Son and Holy Spirit we praise you father that you've given to us that the creation all around us as we consider the creation and our drive into worship this more this evening we thank you Father for the the beauty that surrounds us here clearly it evidences a great God clearly it evidences a God that is most worthy to be worship when we consider the the high mountains and the the snow one of the white snow and they the green trees and the blue the blue sky father all these things we speak of a good God a kind God that allows us to enjoy about this creation we praise you father that you are the god of creation that you spoke this whole world into being and in six days and you rested on the seventh and gave us that pattern for our own lives we pray as you follow that you have given to us this opportunity this privilege to be worshippers of you on this the Lord's Day we thank you Lord that it is the whole day that we get to come into your house that we get to worship you even twice on the Lord's Day we think of other countries around the world where there there is not to cease from labor but rather they continue seven days a week thank you Father that you've given to us this this pattern in our own nation that we get to enjoy the privilege of worshiping you thank you for the freedoms that we get to enjoy as well father we praise you for the gift that these things are to us Lord thank you for your church thank you for the the gift of the Lord Jesus Christ that he is leading his church and he will continue to lead his church cause us Lord to delight in in in our king our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ thank you that he came to this earth to ultimately die as a sacrifice for our sins and how we pray Lord that we might that we might think of these things and meditate upon them not just today on the Lord's Day but rather throughout the week that our privileges are found in the person of your son Lord Jesus Christ and how we pray Lord that you would help us to walk accordingly as well walk according to your word and Cs seek to - to be conformed to the image of your son the Lord Jesus Christ says as it set out in the Word of God Father we do confess you that you are a that you are God who loves to forgive sin and for that we truly gave you our grateful thanks we pray that again you would be pleased to forgive us of all of our sins and all of our debts father you are truly a gracious God a merciful God and how we praise you for that we pray Lord that we might know that righteousness that comes through the Lord Jesus Christ this night here in this place and so Lord we do pray your blessing to be upon pastor Butler again strengthen him and the inner man strengthen him in the outer man we do pray Lord that you he would know your help and your aid in these in this coming week to just rest and and and take some time apart and we pray Lord that you would truly bless him and and cause him to to be renewed with strength father we do pray for those who govern over us in this nation of ours we know Lord that there is much to do to bemoan there is much to to be grieved about and so Lord how we how we pray that you would be merciful to us as a nation the Father what is what is evil would be called evil and what is right and good and lovely would be called good and right and lovely and we pray Lord that you would just show yourself to be merciful to us as a nation we do confess Lord that even the sin of abortion that goes on day after day month after month year after years is a sin that that truly didn't does grieve the heart of God and Lord we want to do we want to hate the things that you hate and love the things that you love how we pray that righteousness would would prevail across this nation and Lord we know that will only happen through the strengthening of your church so we pray that you would strengthen your churches strengthen those men of God in pulpits this day - to bring forth your word and to declare all of your truth father your all of your holy law that we would see that you are a holy God that and and we do break your your holy law and how we pray Lord that we would that we would see these things confess our sins to you and that you would be pleased to to hear us and and heal this land we do pray for the upcoming elections father we know that ultimately you've told us you've commanded us to to pray for those in the Lord you over us and so we pray that you would be pleased to cause even the elections coming up we're men of God men and women of God who are seeking places in in in positions of power we pray Lord that you would bless those people and cause them to take up those those torches to help cause them to take up those positions of influence and and power into and to attitude to to deal righteously with them we do pray so let me just commit them into your hands and and into your attitude to your grace and pray that you would be merciful to us as a nation we do pray so Lord blesses this night cause us to be worshipers of you cause us to to have that single eye focus of worshiping the the high king of heaven and that we might that we might to not think about the things that in the past week or in the week coming up tomorrow but rather may are so focused be upon the worship of our great God and our high king in heaven and we pray that Jesus Christ might be lifted up here in this place this night and it's in Jesus precious name we pray amen well please turn with me your hymn book set to the second hymn which we 263 263 and I'll ask you to stand please [Music] [Music] you may be seated and please turn with me in your Bibles to to Genesis chapter 10 Genesis chapter 10 there's probably a few scriptures a few chapters in the Bible that that one would choose not to read if they had the if they had the opportunity well I don't have the opportunity this is the next chapter which pastor Butler very conveniently left after chapter 9 you can see it's it's got a lot of names in a lot of words that may be hard to pronounce so bear with me I will try to pronounce my approximate home it seems to go relatively smoothly but it's what you practice at home doesn't always work out up here so anyways I guess make one comment now be at the beginning and that would be I remember can't a camcorder past quarter always saying that we don't have a religion at once upon a time religion ours is a religion that's ours a Christianity is based upon facts and truth and geography and and people it's real and I suppose that we learn nothing else obvious just lots to learn from Chapter ten I'm sure a real a real preacher could open this out this passage but if nothing else we recognize that that it's not a once upon once upon a time religion it truly is there was a certain people and said they lived in a certain land and we can trace the scriptures we could we can trace our our Christian roots back to these back to these very very beginning times so these are the nation's that are descended from Noah so Genesis chapter 10 verse 1 now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah Shem ham and Japheth and sons were born to them after the flood the sons of Japheth were Gomer Magog Madai Javan tubal meth and Tyrus the sons of Gomer were Ashkenazi Griffith and togarmah the sons of Javon were Elijah Elisha Tarshish hit'em and dot annum from these the host land peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands everyone according to his language according to their families into their Nations the sons of ham were cush Mizraim put and Canaan the sons of cush were Seba hvala Sapta Rama and septal of SAP taka and the sons of Rama were sheba and dedan cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty one on the earth he was a mighty hunter before the Lord therefore it is said like nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord and the beginning of the kingdom was babel erech accad and calneh in the land of Shinar from that land he went to assyria and built nineveh Rehoboth ire kala and resin between Nineveh and kala that is the principal city ms reign begot ludum annemun Leben naphtha l'm path erosion and casts mugam from whom came the Philistines and Kotori Kanan begot Sidon his firstborn and hath the Jebusite the amorite and the girgashite the hivite and the are kite and the Senate the Arvind ight and zemerik and the hematite afterward the families of the Canaanites were dispersed and the border of the Canaanites was from sidon as you go toward gerar as far as gaza then as you go towards sodom gomorrah admah and zeboiim as far as Lasha these were the sons of ham according to their families according to their languages in their lands and in their nations and children were born also to Shem the father of all the children of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder the sons of Shem were elam ashur Arphaxad hood Aaron the sons of Aaron were as full Geth and mash our fax ad begat Sayla and Sayla begat Eber - Eber were born two sons the name of one was Peleg for in his day his days the earth was divided and his brother's name was Joktan Jacques ttan begot alma dad shell off' hazarmaveth Jarrah huh durham goozle die claw opal a bimmel Sheba Oh fear have hvala and jobab all these were the sons of jacque them and their dwelling place was from misha as you go toward sea far the mountains of the east these were the sons of shem according to their families acordes in their lands according to their Nations these were the families of the sons of Noah according to their generations in their nations and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood they meant well let's pray our loving Heavenly Father again we praise you that we get to read your word and father we believe your word is inspired from Genesis to Revelation even in this passage father we we we are cognizant of the fact that yeah that that you saved a very certain people and from that people father ultimately yeah the Promised One the Lord Jesus Christ would come and how we praise you that the Lord Jesus Christ came to save the people for himself of which we are included here in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ this day in 2019 how we praise You Father we look back over history in the past and our current time and and history in the future father how we praise you that you are assembling together a large multitude of people without number that will be in heaven one day declaring and and and praising you for for all of eternity father we look forward to the day when we will cross the Jordan and into a Manuel's land when we will be with many people from the past and many people in the future who whom you have saved whom the Lord Jesus Christ has saved and we pray Lord that as as a people here in this earth on this Laura on this lawyer world you're in this lower world now that we would have one eye fixed upon that eternal goal that eternal mark that that to finish the race that is set before us that we might join that throng in heaven we pray Lord that you would just be pleased to sanctify us by your holy word even this night and it's in Jesus precious name we pray amen well please turn with me for the last him before we go to God's Word and that would be hymn number 236 236 I'll ask you Stan [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well please turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm 6 as we said this morning that's what we'd be looking out this evening it's a very similar Psalm in many ways it's a prayer as most of the most of the The Book of Psalms it is known as the prayer book but it's a specific prayer of David a my again my credits goes it goes to dr. Dale ralph davis for for excellent outline to fill in some of the missing pieces in the in the in the in the chapter which i drew drew upon so Psalms chapter six will read it pray and then we'll begin to the chief musician with stringed instruments on an eight stringed harp a psalm of David O Lord do not rebuke me in your anger nor chasing me in your hot displeasure have mercy on me O Lord for I'm weak O Lord heal me for my bones are troubled my soul also is greatly troubled but you O Lord how long return O Lord deliver me Oh save me from for your Mercy's sake for in death there is no room there is no remembrance of you in the grave who will give you thanks I am weary with my groaning all night I make my bed swim i drench my couch with my tears my eye wastes away because of grief it grows old because of all my enemies depart from me all you workers of iniquity for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping the Lord has heard my supplication the Lord will receive my prayer let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly amen let's pray our gracious and our loving Heavenly Father it's once again with with great privilege that we come into your presence to open up your whole word and so Lord how we pray that you would be gracious that you would give us the holy spirit both to communicate and to and and as a here to understand the Word of God this night you pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will be lifted up that's father you'd be glorified in all that is said and that we would leave here having benefited from the the the the Word of God we pray that your spirit might come now and that you would be pleased to bless it and own it in the ears of each and every person this night and it's in Jesus precious name we pray amen well certainly many are familiar with the pattern for prayer that's very common common parlance in our day and age it's Acts we remember that kind of it's an easy thing to remember acts a CTS the a is for adoration when we come to God in prayer it's good to adorn him it's good to adorn the God that we that we that we worship the C stands for confession is good to confess our sins it's a good good thing to remember in our in our in our in our prayer time to confess our sins before a holy God and then to give Thanksgiving to God we have much to be thankful for and so we should remember the T in acts 2 to be thankful and and finally the last one is supplication in eight a CTS the last of course the supplication it's a good guide ultimately because it stresses that prayer is not all about petition prayer is not all about supplication so if you were listening when I read chapter six Oh saw this of this Psalm we could almost school David because he says no no I this this whole Psalm is supplication I'm doing away with that whole idea of acts a CTS to adorn God to to confess to give Thanksgiving and then to to plead to to bring my supplication before God he goes straight to supplicate a supplication not in this in this whole chapter and sometimes emergencies may demand that we ditch recommended patterns not that and I'm not suggesting that the a CTS is not a good pattern to have in our prayer but sometimes if it's emergency sometimes we might just have to plunge right into pets as David does in this particular chapter so even in this nonconformity to the powder in prayer I think David is going to teach us something about prayer and in the first three verses moving to the first point I trust most you still have a have a handout from this morning on the backside was with Psalm 6 let's look at this Psalm from David's perspective of course let's see the agony that David seems to be expressing that he's forming and and ultimately what's feeding that what's feeding that that agony what's what's what's feeding that expression of great anxiety well it's right in verse 1 David starts off by saying do not rebuke me in your anger chasing me in your hot displeasure there may be some sin that God is chastening David for we we really don't know God does that God does not want sir David does not want God to to deal with him so severely we know certainly that in the first verse but he wants him to moderate his anger towards David and we'll come back to this later what what exactly is David talking about not sure we will ever be able to totally answer that question but certainly David does not want God to deal with him as severely as he is and we look at verse 2 a David mentions the problem of weakness he says for I am weak I'm faint I'm withering I'm starting to to ultimately get wiped out with whatever he's dealing with it's it's it's it's it's quite treacherous it's quite it's quite burdensome whatever it is it's it's almost to the point of wiping wiping him out it's difficult to know whether these descriptions are literal are they met if a metaphorical figurative or are they are they literal and not sure we will as I say will ever know certainly verses 6 and 7 point to some kind of physical exhaustion if we read verse 6 and 7 I am weary with my groaning all night I make my bed sweat that's how I swim I drenched my couch with my tears my eyes waste away because of grief it grows old because of all my because of all my enemies so certainly there's some kind of physical exhaustion add to this problem the problem of fear if we read to be 2/3 a it says o Lord heal me from my bones are troubled my soul also is greatly troubled so there seems to be a problem of fear in in the in the soul of David that he is praying for thee goes right to supplication David appears to certainly genuinely be terrified whatever it is it's terrifying them and say we do not know but something is terror is terrifying him it might well be the disfavor of God if we look at verse 1 certainly what appeared to be some disfavor on the part of God O Lord do not rebuke me in your anger nor chasing me and your hot displeasure it could be sickness verse 2 refers to some sickness my soul is greatly troubled it could nose my bones are troubled heal me is what he's asking there in verse 2 if you read verses 8 and then 10 it seems to be the threat of enemies deep verse 8 depart from me all you workers of iniquity verse 10 let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly so it could be a disfavor of God it could be sickness it could be threat of enemies could be all three we don't know but certainly whatever it is has caused David to feel deep anguish deep terror and so it's straight to supplication that he goes if we look at verse three be the problem of time seems to contribute to David's agony he says in verse three B says but you O Lord how long certainly can't this often be a problem with with God's ways you know David's how long a verse three how long will you allow this to go on why don't you intervene is really what is saying why don't I get relief why is God waiting why does God hold off from bringing me relief we say that God will intervene sooner intervene sooner or later but it often seems to be later and not sooner and David is as much troubled with God as he is with the present circumstances and sometimes we can do we can be in the same situation we can find ourselves we have a calendar we can say well I can hold on until the end of this day or I can hold to the end of the week or I can hold the end of the year but I must find some relief from God God's calendar and our calendar often don't match up so I don't propose to Matt ID you know tied up packaged here as to the reasons why God allows us to wait other than because David sir doesn't seem to give us any reason why God is waiting to bring him some relief other than it's not about it's it's about God's glory and not about ours that's all we can say when it comes to God perhaps not answering a prayer according to our schedule Romans 8:28 what does it say and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God to those who are called according to his purpose those are hard words and we can say and we know that all things all things mean good and bad when the good things happen it's easy to give praise to God well yeah we see how these things are working out for good but what about when it's a bad thing what about was when it's something that's deeply troubling as it was troubling David here in this in this sixth chapter of Psalms so they're hard words but they're very true words when we consider that that that that Romans 8:28 passage that all things work together for good and all means good and breh and and bad perhaps David's most pressing matter is that he's under the displeasure of God perhaps that's the thing that really is is is the the greatest anxiety to David if we reach verse 1 Oh Lord do not rebuke me in your anger nor chasing me in your hot displeasure is there any worse than the loss of a friendship if you lose a friendship that's that's disheartening any agony worse is there any agony worse than the loss of friendship with God what did David say in psalm 32 just turn your bibles to Psalm thirty two it's a psalm of confession and I think we see very much the heart of David in psalm 32 when he lost what we might call the friendship of God through David's own sin psalm 32 verse three I'll read three and four says when I kept silent my bones does silent about his own sin with Bathsheba when I kept silent my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long for day and night your hand was heavy upon me my vitality was turned into the drought of summer so we see there in that day in that passage in psalm 32 that that the loss of friendship with God was terribly agonizing to to to David simply pray sorry so what can date what can David God's servant do when he's under you always you always displeasure well simply pray and that's we did in verse 2 right he's in verse 2 it says show grace to me heal me Yahweh so we ultimately we go to the God who who brings wrath with a plea of bring mercy would we not if God can bring wrath upon us would we not go to that same God and seek for his mercy think of the think of Peter on the shore of Galilee what did what had Peter just previously done to the Lord Jesus Christ be denied him three times and who does who does Jesus come and have a meal with but Peter the very one who denied him and so there's that sense of that agonizing that agonizing pressing matter upon Peter and what does Jesus do but Jesus comes and he heals he has mercy upon the one who really didn't deserve the mercy but God gives him mercy so we could say we could see Peter in verse one and we see the Lord Jesus coming to him in verse two having mercy upon him what about a father or a mother having to discipline their children lots of parents here with young children it's it's not a pleasant thing to have to bring a rod of discipline whether it be a physical rod or the hand upon upon little ones rearend in order to discipline them but there is there is there was purpose for that that's discipline comes but into whose hand do those small children run they run into the very hands that brought them great discipline so because they know there's love there they know there's there's there's a there's a there's a consoling that's a consoling hand as well so it's a hand of displeasure they can also be a hand of console consoling and so therefore we we see the same idea with God here in the in the first two verses the idea drives David's plea and verse two David knows that that the God who is striking God is also the God who's a healing God he strikes and verse 1 he heals in verse 2 so in the same way as our children we would want our children to come to us in order to seek our love and seek our our affections even after we discipline them and they just do it well wouldn't we do the same thing to our God ought we ought we not to do the same thing to our God proof of this is found in Isaiah there's a good passengers just one verse Isaiah chapter 19 if you turn to Isaiah 19 I think you'll see that this it's a good description of this God who strikes but also a God who heals Isaiah 19 verse 22 there's Isaiah speaking and the Lord will strike Egypt he will strike and heal it they will return to the Lord and he will be entreated by them and heal them so once again I read that pretty quickly I'll just read one more time he may have been turning Isaiah 19 22 and the Lord will strike Egypt he will strike and heal it they will return to the Lord and he will be entreated by them and heal them so that brings encouragement I trust that we are encouraged if we feel that the striking hand of God is upon us in whatever our circumstances whatever it is that's troubling us that yes that might be a striking hand but God's also a healing hand so it's to God we would want to go well David then brings his art brings the argument in the fore in the next three verses verses 4 to 7 having brought his petitions to God right off the bat remember he he went against the the acronym of Acts he went straight to a straight to supplications now he's going to bring his argument and notice that David now brings his argument verse 4 to 7 he presses his reasons upon God in the middle of his emergency whatever that emergency is in the middle of it it was in the it was in the first three verses David now argues his case he tells Yahweh why he should and why he must deliver him so he's using argumentation even in his prayer we may say well that doesn't sound right well if David is doing it that I society then I would suggest that we have warrant to do the same thing to use argument in our prayer verse 4b how does he argue verse 4 B says o save me for your mercies say for because of your covenant love is really what he's saying the argument rests in the character of God which we spoke about this morning because of God's character we can argue we can argue with his character in mind the word the word their mercy it really means a covenant love here the hebrew word that is used is called has said or the word is has said we've heard pastor Butler speak of has said in our Bible study upstairs on Wednesday night it means it means devoted love that pledges never to let us go right we're in his grip a setting of the will to love regardless of how you respond to me and remarkably even how I feel so that is what is being referred to here when when David says in verse 4 before B Oh save me for your mercy safe for your has said for your covenant love and that's the kind of love that God has for us turn with me to 2nd Samuel 22 second Samuel 22 and verse 51 as for an example of this has said love 22 and verse 51 of 2nd Samuel he is the tower of salvation to his King and shows mercy that's has said and shows has said to his anointed to David and his descendants forever is not remarkable to his descendants that's us that's you that's me we are his descendants we are the descendants of David so and shed his prayer is to show has said or show mercy to his anointed to David and his descendants if we think of the I'm not going to read it but in second samuel chapter 7 we have the we have the Davidic covenant and ultimately God has promised to be true to David or faith to David and that Davidic covenant and we are included in that Davidic covenant covenant so I trust that that would be another argument to in a sense Marshall up to God when we are in deep distress the kind of distress that David finds himself here in Psalm chapter six so so to paraphrase David's argument here in verse in verse four basically saying save me for you have pledged yourself to deal lovingly with me and I'm holding you to your word save me for your promise to deal lovingly with me and I'm gonna hold you to your word is really what you say it's an argument that rests on on on God's promise and beneath that pulling it up holding up the promise of God it's like it's like a foundation that's built upon the character of God we believe in the character of God then we can rest assured that our arguments are going to be in on firm footing Theodore Roosevelt jr. he had been in World War one and he came back to fight in World War two as well obviously was an older man by the time he came back to World War two he was he was one of the few fighting generals that the Americans had he had been in North Africa and he'd been in Italy and then on the eve of d-day he demanded that General Eisenhower allow him to go ashore with the first wave of attack at Utah Beach he was 57 years old crippled with arthritis having to use a cane to get around and he want to hit Utah Beach what was his argument here's what he said quote my men expected of me I'm the son of Theodore Roosevelt or one could paraphrase and say I have to that's who I am it's part of my character so so David's argument is similar to to Theodore Roosevelt here jr. as similar to this he's resting and Yahweh's character in the sort of God that God is declaring himself to be and sometimes this may be our only state in times of trouble what God has said about himself is true and he will do it and we have to believe that it's the truth of God how massively important I think is the doctrine of God what is it in our our London Baptist confession of faith it's - after the Scriptures is chapter 1 chapter 2 is God the doctrine of God that's so important certainly the the Divine's felt that that the doctrine of God was why because it's the foundation upon everything that is in the Christian life all of our promises all of our all of our prayers ought to be based upon that foundation of who God is so having a good understanding who God is will certainly benefit us in our prayer life so bringing before God the character of God is an argument we can muster in our prayer life and God's God's covenant love for his people God's has said love and that's something we can marshal in our prayer in our prayer life God you have has said love for me and for that reason I'm calling upon you for whatever my plea is whatever it is you may be going through just remind yourself of that has said that covenant love David SEC you second argument centers on giving praise and giving thanks if you look at verse 5 5 a for in death there is no remembrance of you the verb remembrance has to do with expressing praise and worship as the next line suggests that verse 5 B I'll reach 5 a and B for in death there is no remembrance of you in the grave who will give you thanks or who will give you praise the grave is the realm of the dead obviously we know that his argument is if I die if I succumb if my enemies over and overtake me overcome and they get to me and if you don't rescue me well there's gonna be one less person to praise you there's going to be one less person to sing o thou great Jehovah or over a thousand tongues to sing or praise my soul the king of heaven to his feet die tribute bring or there's gonna be one less person to sing a mighty fortress is our God a bulwark never failing so it's not the David had no hope beyond the grave Dave is not saying in verse 5 that somehow he's bribing God that you must keep me alive you know these are all sewing rabbit trails I don't want to go down you know I don't think David's suggesting that there's no praise of God in in in the grave because ultimately we know we'll be in heaven praising God but David's assuming that the whole purpose of his life is off me to do what to praise Yahweh not to make a better living not to get a higher standard of living it's not to get a superb education and beyond everyone else it's not to advance rapidly in our profession it's not to excel in the sport that perhaps we we take or that we've taken up even more spiritually speaking it's not to become a better and more spiritual Christian that's not the whole purpose of the Christian life the purpose of the Christian life is to praise God simple as that to praise God that's our whole purpose in life and so David's prayer in verse 5 may expose it may expose us if we say well what's wrong with death well really there's only one answer - what's wrong with death because I won't be able to stand here that free grace Baptist Church or in the pew and join the scene of I greet Lee who my Savior art my only trust and savior of my heart or any of the hymns that are that are in our wonderful hymn book because that's ultimately the whole reason for existence on this earth so we don't want to die why because we'll leave an empty spot in our pew there will be one less person to sing praises to our God so that's what God is heir David's argue a part of his argument is centering on giving praise and giving thanks to God I will not be here to praise you I will not be here to thank you if you don't rescue me from whatever circumstance he finds himself in David's third argument underscores the misery that he is in let's read verses 6 and 7 I'm weary with my groaning all all night I make my beds swim i drench my couch with my tears my eye wastes away because of grief it grows old because of all my enemies does God need this information no I don't think God needs the information David does a great job in terms of listing well here's the things I'm going through here's that here's how it's here's how it's wrecking my life here's how here's here's the consequences whatever circumstances he's dealing with so God didn't need the information but what does this have to do with it arguing prayer will again back to the assumptions what does David assume about God he assumes that God is merciful he assumes that Yahweh will be touched with pity at the condition that he describes here in those two verses it will also show it will also somehow touch God's heart David's prayer is assuming that the father's has said that the father has has said a covenant love for him you say you see in your handout there's many passages I bolded to pass exactly - I really feel I have time to read tonight I'm gonna read Matthew chapter and I like you to turn your Bibles please with me to the first one and the last one Matthew chapter 9 to give this sense of David's argument underscores the the misery that he is in and so David's prayer is assuming here that the father has has said love for him and obviously the father is like the Son and the son is like the father and so what we know to be true of the father we can assume to be true of the son and vice versa Matthew chapter 9 chapter 9 verses 35 to 36 it says frybo um make sure I have the right passage I'm in chapter 10 there we go chapter 9 35 to 36 yes then Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people but when he saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion for them because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no Shepherd that's our God that's our God who has has said love covenant love so marshal that up in our arguments that that we know that the character of God and we know that our if we if we if we say to God in our prayer what our circumstances are he has compassion for his people and let's turn to Hosea they adjust comes after Daniel they say on your own time you can look up those many other passages that speak of this has said love so hosea chapter 11 and the first 11 verses and could just consider this this has said love that i've spoken of the first 11 verses when israel was a child I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son as they called them so they went from them they sacrificed to the bales and burned incense to carved images I taught II for him to walk taking them by their arms but they did not know that I healed them I drew them with gentle cords with bands of love and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck i stooped and fed them he shall not return to the land of Egypt but the Assyrian shall be his king because they refused to repent and the sword shall slash in his cities devour his districts and consume them because of their own councils my people are bent on backsliding from me though they call to the Most High none at all exalt him how can I give you up Ephraim how can I hand you over Israel how can I make you like aDNA how can I set you like Zebulon my heart churns within me my sympathy is stirred i will not execute the fierceness of my anger i will not again destroy ephraim for i'm a god and not a man not man the holy one in your midst and i will not come with terror they shall walk after the Lord he will roar like a lion when he roars when his sons shall come Trembley from the West they shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt like a dove from the land of Assyria and I will let them dwell in their houses says the Lord so that's a God of great has said covenant love so David the psalmist never meant to reduce prayer to an exercise in in logic but as believe we we may we could we we ultimately should follow the biblical pattern here and Marshall and use the best arguments we can in our prayers because bringing requests or start bringing reasons for our requests for help in prayer may do one of two things first of all it may show us how shadi sometimes our concerns are because as we as we speak them out loud to God we can see yea those really are poor shoddy reasons that I would be asking God to relieve me from whatever it is I'm dealing with or it may may even encourage us if we're able to muster a cogent case if we're able to marshal a good case of argumentation with God well that's only going to encourage our prayer life that's only gonna encourage us if we can marshal verses before God God this is the this is the kind of God you are you are God who has has said covenant love for your people and I want to give praise I want to give thanks to you if you if I continue to to be downtrodden if I continue to be distraught I'm not going to be in the in a free grace Baptist Church singing praises singing out of our wonderful hymn book and so ultimately argument in prayer shows us that we're called to be to be to be thinking in our worship when we worship God were to be thinking and that's certainly a good reason why we should argue in our prayer life as David does here in this in the sixth chapter of the Psalms finally for the last point David finds assurance there's good things to be said at the end of this at the end of the chapter in verses 8 to 10 David shows us that that the assurance he finds in it comes eventually in verses 8 to 10 there is a sense of assurance verse 10 shows the the shows the actual deliverance is still in the future he's still okay with that that's where faith comes to play that's where our faith needs to come to play remember God is not a genie God doesn't just come to our demand but based on that future assurance the psalmist can defy his enemy in verse eight a he says depart from me all you workers of iniquity whatever the enemy was whether it was disfavor with God whether sickness whether it was enemies versus eight b-29 David David's assurance rests on the certainty that Yahweh has heard him let me read verses 8b to the end of nine for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping the Lord has heard my supplication the Lord will receive my prayer so prayer all three lays hold of the God who changes things and who in prayer changes you and me and sometimes maybe that's the reason why we why difficulty comes our way it's for our own as far our own sanctification it's perhaps just to change us and in that there's benefit there's good there's good finally a word of encouragement verse eight be just reading eight B it says for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping what a way to describe prayer the voice of my weeping the same can be stated in Romans 8:26 where we referred to that this morning Romans chapter eight verse 26 and Psalms six eight they may have been the forerunner to 826 through Romans 8:26 that where the the spirit groans with with with murmurings that we can't even put into who put into specific words they're just they're they're murmurings they're their thoughts in our heads which the Lord does here and the Lord is able to understand and bring encouragement to us so perhaps Psalm 6 8 is the forerunners I say of of Romans 8 to 26 something to think about certainly underline verse 8 be in your Bibles so you can you can go through a lot in this lore world with a text like that and a God like that can't we for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping so no matter what your circumstance no matter what your difficulty just to know that God hears God has that has said love God hears our weeping and ultimately he will answer that prayer in hitsue to his glory so Psalm five and six just in to rehearse a little bit of what we what we read this morning or what we looked in this morning they're both very similar they have similar headings if you if you look at chapter five what is the heading to the chief musician with flutes a psalm of david chapter 6 - the chief musician with stringed instruments on an 8 streamed heart a psalm of david so they both have similar headings this implies that this psalm perhaps was to be used in in public worship I would suggest by God's people and the significance is that there will be more who will come before God in prayer and will need the assurance that God sees and hears them here if we just flip over to Isaiah 38 5 there's a there's a passage in Isaiah 38 5 that is want to encourage you with because to me it was a it's a great encouraging verse 38 verse 5 I'm dealing with a new Bible and so the pages don't turn as quickly as you'd like to 38 verse 5 it says go and tell Hezekiah thus says the Lord the God of David your father I have heard your prayer I have seen your tears surely I will add to your days 15 years so God saw and he heard and he answered and that's a great encouragement Yahweh has given us a savior who in the days of his flesh when he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save us from death and he was hurt sorry let me just I was reading Hebrews which I've written out here but I'd like us to turn to Hebrews 5 chapter 5 verse 7 and those would be our last passage that we'll turn to Hebrews chapter 5 verse 7 so the significance here just to reiterate in Isaiah and now in Hebrews chapter 5 verse up verse 7 that we're going to read is that there will be many more who are going to come after the days of David and come after the days the Lord Jesus that's us in our day and age and we're going to come before God in prayer and we'll need the assurance that God will see us and God will hear us and that's a significant that's a significant thing too aware of in our in our in our in our daily living was Hebrews chapter 5 verse set verse 7 say it says who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with famine cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death and was heard because of his godly fear so again that that sense that that God was that God heard the Lord Jesus Christ and He healed so be encouraged this night Psalm 6 8 isaiah 38 verse 5 Hebrews 5 verse 7 take that into your prayer closet and have confidence in Yahweh that Yahweh does here he does answer and it's that that ought to be what will bring encouragement to us as Christians as we face another day as we face another week as we face another year that we would know that this god has a has said love a covenant love for us his people and he will hear us and he will heal now again just a reminder it may not be in our timing it may not be the way we would like to see an answer to timed in answer to our prayer but the fact that he hears us ought to encourage all of us the fact that he will answer us ought to encourage all of us so take that into your prayer closet this week and I trust that you will be encouraged to ultimately find find great assurance in in the God that we love the God that we know that to be to be true in this in this particular tackle chapter of the Psalms and I trust that we can take it and pray it in in the skin in this coming week well--that's pray our gracious and our loving Heavenly Father we again pray father you'd be pleased to bless the things that are said this evening how we praise you father that you are a God who does care that you are God who does see that you are God who does heal and how we pray Lord that just as you saw and healed in the in the life of the Israelites and not of the passage in Isaiah you saw the Lord Jesus Christ and the agony that he suffered in the garden and you you attended to his needs how we pray Lord that we too would see that you are God who does hear a God who does heal even now in this in this day that we live in 2019 these many years later that you are the same God you are the same yesterday you are the same today and you are the same forever how we pray Lord that you would be pleased to to cause these these truths to be rooted into our hearts that when we are faced with difficulty when we are faced with with those situations in those circumstances that are beyond our own control and we seek after you with great supplication to know that you are God who does here and that you hear God that does heal and we pray Lord your blessing upon these things cause us to be prayers this week according to your word and we just ask these things in Jesus precious name Amen well the the the piano will play and after the piano has played for a period of time then we will be dismissed you
